Despite playing with a backup quarterback for half of his games in 2024, Green Bay Packers receiver Jayden Reed is having a career breakout this season. Few players have been more electrifying than Reed this year, as he’s recorded 427 yards from scrimmage — which ranks second in the league, only behind Houston’s Nico Collins, among wide receivers.
What’s really interesting is that of Reed’s 376 adjusted yards as a pass-catcher, 334 of those have come as a slot receiver. For the purposes of showing you the true value of slot receivers in this article, we’re going to treat receiving touchdowns as a bonus gain of 20 yards, which falls in line how Adjusted Net Yards Per Attempt (ANY/A) — which is a passing efficiency stat more correlated to wins than passer rating — values touchdowns.